Pinboard (petej)
https://pinboard.in/u:petej/public/
recent bookmarks from petejIn defying Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu is exposing the limits of US power | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-03-23T16:04:10+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/joe-biden-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-gaza-donald-trump
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza Hamas war NetanyahuBenjamin USA BidenJoe food famine aid BlinkenAntony HarrisKamala IDF youth election TrumpDonald Michigan Qatar negotiations arms supply certification dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9927717f5d6b/This Tory long goodbye is toxic for the country – and making Labour’s job ever harder | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-03-15T21:07:37+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/15/tory-country-labour-general-election
petejUK politics government generalElection ge2024 ToryParty SunakRishi HesterFrank AbbottDiane racism donors Islamophobia Muslims extremism AndersonLee ReformUK asylum Rwanda LabourParty StarmerKeir economy security defence immigration borders ReevesRachel caution dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c08326eed8af/George Galloway stands accused of profiting from the pain of Gaza – and rightly so. But he is not the only one | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-03-02T09:14:06+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/01/george-galloway-profiting-pain-gaza-rochdale
petejUK politics GallowayGeorge Rochdale byelection Brexit FarageNigel GriffinNick BNP immigration WilliamsonChris BannonStephen PutinVladimir HusseinSaddam Syria Ghouta chemicalWeapons Assad China Uyghurs Muslims AssangeJulian gender sexuality MiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza war opportunism AndersonLee BravermanSuella SNP ceasefire HouseOfCommons LabourParty populism dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:574dc2fddf2f/There is still a way to stop Donald Trump – but time is running out | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-01-21T07:50:12+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/19/stop-donald-trump-republican-opponents-insurrection
petejUSA politics TrumpDonald RepublicanParty election NewHampshire primaries DeSantisRon HaleyNikki ChristieChris BidenJoe age frailty DemocraticParty crime prosecution legal dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:6c052e6ea1da/South Africa brought the case, but one man dragged Israel into the dock at The Hague – Benjamin Netanyahu | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-01-12T21:47:42+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/12/south-africa-benjamin-netanyahu-the-hague-israel-case
petejICJ SouthAfrica Israel genocide Palestine Gaza Hamas war TheHague WalzerMichael morality asymmetry politics NetanyahuBenjamin farRight rhetoric dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:43cda1a9b088/Storm Trump is brewing – and the whole world needs to brace itself | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2024-01-05T19:55:09+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/05/donald-trump-president-white-house-damage
petejUSA politics election RepublicanParty TrumpDonald power control VoughtRussell retribution justice judiciary military NATO PutinVladimir Russia Ukraine China dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3ab05ae8980b/There’s only one way out of this Gaza war and Netanyahu is blocking it. Joe Biden must force him from power | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-12-18T06:37:08+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/15/gaza-war-benjamin-netanyahu-joe-biden-israel-us
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza Hamas war NetanyahuBenjamin USA BidenJoe politics PalestinianAuthority Fatah occupation two-state HotovelyTzipi farRight coalition expediency Ben-GvirItamar settlements WestBank violence ClintonBill dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:6e4f0dedb09e/In its war against Hamas, Israel faces a tragic choice between two different routes to disaster | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-12-02T00:14:43+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/01/war-hamas-israel-tragic-choice
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza war Hamas invasion military strategy deaths civilians casualties hostages brutality choice dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:d75e026cbd89/Too many taking sides in this conflict miss the true nature of Hamas – and Netanyahu | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-11-17T22:54:41+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/17/hamas-benjamin-netanyahu-ceasefire
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza Hamas war politics terrorism jihadism strategy tactics AbrahamAccords NetanyahuBenjamin SmotrichBezalel farRight Ben-GvirItamar WestBank settlements violence dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:ded018dbf0a5/Once this war between Israel and Hamas is over, a deeper conflict looms | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-11-04T08:03:28+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/03/war-israel-hamas-conflict-peace-extremists
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza Hamas war politics NetanyahuBenjamin military strategy BlinkenAntony trusteeship PalestinianAuthority Fatah two-state settlements territory dialogue kibbutzim violence polarisation farRight SmotrichBezalel Ben-GvirItamar dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1a4ab9586d71/The tragedy of the Israel-Palestine conflict is this: underneath all the horror is a clash of two just causes | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-10-28T07:10:42+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/27/tragedy-israel-palestine-conflict-horror
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine Gaza Hamas war polarisation politics history Holocaust decolonisation dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:471cd45acc9f/Warning: Benjamin Netanyahu is walking right into Hamas’s trap | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-10-20T22:21:23+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/20/benjamin-netanyahu-hamas-israel-prime-minister
petejMiddleEast Israel Palestine politics NetanyahuBenjamin Gaza Hamas attack war USA BidenJoe 9/11 al-Qaeda Afghanistan Iraq warOnTerror IslamicState islamism blockade siege food fuel water invasion WestBank Fatah division strategy failure dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3e3a770c247a/I’ve got news for Rishi Sunak: he no longer leads the conservative party | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-09-29T18:24:39+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/29/rishi-sunak-conservative-party-braverman-net-zero
petejUK politics ToryParty SunakRishi populism TheRight cars roads traffic regulation localGovernment transport netZero targets emissions Rosebank oil gas environment fossilFuels pollution BravermanSuella migration multiculturalism migrants refugees RefugeeConvention ECHR humanRights cultureWar Brexit BaleTim ge2024 generalElection dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:6ca146b41e9b/Rupert Murdoch’s toxic legacy? The powerful can now blame the world’s ills on ‘the elite’ | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-09-23T06:26:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/22/rupert-murdoch-legacy-power-blame-elite-fox-donald-trump-russell-brand
petejMurdochRupert business media Fox NewsCorp MurdochLachlan power control politics elites anti-elitism Australia USA populism climateChange denial BrandRussell TrumpDonald NetanyahuBenjamin Israel FicoRobert Slovakia dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan blaminghttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:a3bc3a7658e7/Before Brexit there was no small boats crisis: more proof that leaving the EU made everything worse | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-09-16T16:31:17+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/small-boats-industry-science-brexit-made-our-lives-worse
petejUK EU Brexit LabourParty StarmerKeir immigration migration migrants asylum refugees borders withdrawalAgreement EnglishChannel boats Horizon science research safety regulation dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:62c30ec45ed9/Finally, three reasons for Donald Trump to be afraid: a courtroom, a jury and the truth | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-08-04T21:01:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/donald-trump-courtroom-jurors-truth-indictment
petejUSA politics legal TrumpDonald prosecution Jan6 Capitol riot election certification fraud courts democracy conspiracy truth honesty lies trust dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:4f54fb92f8ca/After the byelections, Starmer’s path to power is clear: revulsion at the Tories is essential – but not enough | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-07-22T05:41:14+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/21/byelection-keir-starmer-tories-labour-leader-conservative
petejUK politics byelection Selby Uxbridge SomertonAndFrome generalElection ge2024 LabourParty ULEZ environmentalism TheLeft centrism caution StarmerKeir strategy dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:fd0296290abc/With even leavers regretting Brexit, there’s one path back to rejoining the EU | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-06-29T20:25:27+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/23/leavers-regret-brexit-rejoining-eu-nigel-farage
petejUK EU Brexit politics economy trade costOfLiving migration membership dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b0a40d4881bd/After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, another threat lies on Ukraine’s horizon: Donald Trump | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-06-11T10:03:32+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/09/kakhovka-dam-ukraine-donald-trump-vladimir-putin
petejUkraine Russia Kakhovka dam flooding agriculture farming food irrigation pollution war USA TrumpDonald RepublicanParty PutinVladimir military aid DeSantisRon CarlsonTucker ZelenskiyVolodymyr dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:2e8f81b50b90/The future of AI is chilling – humans have to act together to overcome this threat to civilisation | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-05-27T07:19:05+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/26/future-ai-chilling-humans-threat-civilisation
petejtechnology informationTechnology artificialIntelligence ChatGPT ethics regulation data training restrictions rights transparency bots dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:86c987bbb38c/They’re openly saying it: Brexit has failed. But what comes next may be very dark indeed | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-05-20T07:45:09+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/19/brexit-failed-blame-remoaner-elite-refugees
petejUK politics Brexit EU Leave FarageNigel failure economy costOfLiving publicServices food prices trade manufacturing cars GDP immigration migration blaming JohnsonBoris SunakRishi BadenochKemi CivilService BBC tradeUnions refugees boats asylum nationalism nationalConservatism dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:bdcfcf904bd2/The twilight king: why Charles’s coronation does not feel like the start of a new era | King Charles coronation | The Guardian2023-05-05T07:02:17+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/05/twilight-king-why-charles-coronation-does-not-feel-like-start-of-new-era
petejUK monarchy politics history change ElizabethII CharlesIII coronation colonialism slavery apology religion Christianity diversity devolution age familiarity environment lobbying demographics dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b6058ead4807/Richard Sharp was Boris Johnson’s toxic legacy – never again should politicians pick a boss for the BBC | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-04-29T10:43:26+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/28/richard-sharp-bbc-politicians-non-partisan-information
petejUK politics BBC SharpRichard resignation cronyism JohnsonBoris ToryParty impartiality LinekerGary conflictOfInterest transparency HeppinstallAdam report USA FoxNews CarlsonTucker dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:e087f4052995/Why was Boris Johnson cast into the wilderness this week? Because a populist without a tribe is nothing | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-03-25T22:23:23+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/24/boris-johnson-populist-enablers-trump-netanyahu
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris PrivilegesCommittee DowningStreet parties gatherings rules restrictions guidance coronavirus health TrumpDonald NetanyahuBenjamin corruption judiciary accountability victimhood Rees-MoggJacob dishonesty ToryParty WindsorFramework populism dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:f337ad7b24f8/The real lesson of the Iraq invasion? Beware spies and allies who would drag you to war | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-03-20T07:30:42+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/iraq-war-spies-labour-invasion-conflict
petejUK Iraq IraqWar BlairTony WMD misinformation politics intelligence intervention failure HusseinSaddam regimeChange occupation war USA CheneyDick NewLabour JohnsonBoris Brexit Syria ObamaBarack dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan BushGeorgeWhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:2b10c8db60da/Gary Lineker spoke his mind. Now we should too: fate could have put any one of us in those migrant boats | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-03-12T22:49:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/10/gary-lineker-cruel-tory-policy-boats-migrants
petejUK politics immigration asylum refugees LinekerGary language rhetoric dehumanisation cultureWar legal UNHCR ECHR migrants Albania employment jobs vacancies dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b3ce38bda5bd/If Keir Starmer is to win an election, he has to restore Britain’s faith in politics | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-03-03T17:17:34+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/25/keir-starmer-election-britain-politics
petejUK politics publicServices education healthcare transport courts military defence ToryParty LabourParty economy NewLabour BlairTony growth productivity stagnation reform StarmerKeir cynicism trust confidence credibility dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9e7119c1c53e/The stench coming from this government? It’s the corrupt mixture of private wealth and public squalor | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2023-01-29T09:17:07+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/27/private-affluence-public-squalor-boris-johnson-rishi-sunak-nadhim-zahawi-richard-sharp
petejUK politics government ToryParty corruption cronyism wealth ZahawiNadhim tax taxAvoidance JohnsonBoris SharpRichard BBC HMRC penalties MagnusLaurie investigation SunakRishi leadership HuntJeremy economy dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3f491e541f64/Harry and Meghan are still giving Britons what they really want from royalty: cruel spectacle | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-12-17T07:53:08+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/16/harry-meghan-royalty-monarchy-abolition-windsors
petejUK monarchy PrinceHarry MarkleMeghan television Netflix racism media families SpencerDiana dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c08ba3bdad21/Coup attempts in Germany and the US confirm it: the key terror threat is the far right | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-12-10T09:37:01+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/09/global-terrorism-racist-white-jihadism-far-right
petejGermany politics farRight Reichsbuerger extremism conspiracyTheory WestKanye JonesAlex anti-Semitism USA Australia UK Internet 4chan Telegram dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan terrorismhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:a25f0c8b8040/The reality of Brexit is biting hard. Poor people are suffering most – and now everyone can see it | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-12-03T22:27:42+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/02/brexit-poor-people-paying-eat-debate-human
petejUK politics costOfLiving economy EU Brexit food prices LSE poverty agriculture farming employment recruitment freedomOfMovement trade NHS staffing socialCare migration migrants travel singleMarket dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:0d501542e2aa/A stark lesson for Keir Starmer from the budget: the Tories won’t just lose, you have to beat them | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-11-19T11:21:44+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/18/economic-tory-jeremy-hunt-keir-starmer-autumn-statement
petejUK politics ToryParty HuntJeremy as2022 AutumnStatement economy inflation recession livingStandards SunakRishi TrussLiz KwartengKwasi mini-budget2022 markets austerity publicSpending RedWall levellingUp conservatism tax incomeTax LabourParty opposition polls NewLabour HewittPatricia BarberMichael centrism tactics StarmerKeir ReevesRachel generalElection strategy Brexit dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:45fcf3f5092f/The winner of the midterms is not yet clear – but the loser is Donald Trump | US midterm elections 2022 | The Guardian2022-11-09T21:11:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/09/the-winner-of-the-midterms-is-not-yet-clear-but-the-loser-is-donald-trump
petejUSA politics election midterm RepublicanParty TrumpDonald DemocraticParty BidenJoe VanceJD Ohio Pennsylvania Georgia WalkerHerschel Arizona LakeKari Florida DeSantisRon dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:7cbae370a610/The US is on a knife-edge. The enemy for Trump’s Republicans is democracy itself | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-11-05T08:32:36+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/04/us-knife-edge-trump-republicans-democracy-midterm-elections
petejUSA politics election midterm democracy DemocraticParty RepublicanParty HouseOfRepresentatives Senate economy inflation BidenJoe Trumpism misinformation denial conspiracyTheory TrumpDonald Arizona Wisconsin Capitol riot PelosiPaul PelosiNancy attack WalkerHerschel Georgia dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:f2b75954a376/Rishi Sunak is the best choice the Tories could have made – but Labour can still beat him | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-10-28T23:49:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/28/rishi-sunak-tories-labour-keir-starmer-mordaunt-johnson
petejUK politics ToryParty SunakRishi opposition LabourParty StarmerKeir BravermanSuella wealth non-dom funding levellingUp judgment EOtHO COP27 climateChange HuntJeremy austerity dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:802dba821dd8/Liz Truss has destroyed a reckless political project – Brexitism | Conservatives | The Guardian2022-10-20T16:12:53+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/liz-truss-resignation-brexit-brexitism
petejUK politics ToryParty leadership TrussLiz resignation tax deregulation neoliberalism Thatcherism libertarianism KwartengKwasi mini-budget2022 finance markets economy borrowing interestRates mortgages Brexit delusion OBR scrutiny populism disruption factionalism BravermanSuella immigration JohnsonBoris loyalty dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b67f06bfbaa6/The markets have taken back control: so much for Truss’s Brexit delusion of sovereignty | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-10-14T17:12:45+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/14/markets-take-back-control-brexit-humiliation-britain-suez
petejUK politics TrussLiz ToryParty KwartengKwasi mini-budget2022 dismissal markets credibility delusion Brexit EU economy contraction inflation tax publicServices borrowing sovereignty control finance OBR scrutiny SunakRishi ScholarTom dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b115c9831364/Fair play to Truss: stripped of competence or compassion, her extremism is refreshingly clear | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-10-07T21:28:08+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/07/liz-truss-extremism-government
petejUK politics TrussLiz ToryParty conservatism CameronDavid MayTheresa JohnsonBoris neoliberalism tax cuts state energy power-cuts dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:703a50590861/Keir Starmer can lock the imploding Tories out for a decade – if he gets the message right | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-10-01T08:10:32+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/30/keir-starmer-tories-labour-crisis
petejUK politics LabourParty StarmerKeir opposition ToryParty TrussLiz KwartengKwasi mini-budget2022 economy finance credibility CameronDavid OsborneGeorge narrative messaging communication tactics dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:16fcc981e999/Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have made a declaration of class war | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-09-23T21:15:16+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/23/liz-truss-kwasi-kwarteng-budget
petejUK politics economics economy finance budget KwartengKwasi TrussLiz trickleDown bankers bonuses tax corporationTax NationalInsurance socialCare funding energy prices guarantee borrowing debt class inequality benefits Thatcherism Reaganomics OBR scrutiny fairness dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan mini-budget2022 EPGhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9f8a1de487b2/Have Meghan and Harry moved the monarchy closer towards its end? If only | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-09-11T09:41:11+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/mar/12/meghan-harry-monarchy-end-republicans-royals
petejUK politics monarchy republicanism abolition democracy MarkleMeghan racism dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:ae337524a81e/Once the world had Gorbachev and Mandela. Now we have Trump, Johnson and Truss | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-09-03T07:59:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/02/mikhail-gorbachev-nelson-mandela-donald-trump-boris-johnson-liz-truss
petejpolitics history GorbachevMikhail SovietUnion Russia ColdWar SouthAfrica apartheid MandelaNelson leadership transition costOfLiving energy prices USA Trumpism fascism climateChange Pakistan flooding UK dishonesty delusion JohnsonBoris TrussLiz dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:7f850f230671/Be warned: inflation could take British politics to a very dark place indeed | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-08-06T11:13:34+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/05/inflation-british-politics-recession-bank-of-england
petejUK politics recession BankOfEngland forecasts inflation costOfLiving ToryParty leadership TrussLiz SunakRishi opposition LabourParty StarmerKeir Ukraine Russia war energy prices protest interestRates mortgages anger supply demand Brexit EU trade nationalism populism dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan economyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:602f29eb0533/Brexit is a mood, not a policy – and Liz Truss captures it in all its delusion | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-07-23T06:30:58+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/22/brexit-liz-truss-delusion-rishi-sunak-tory-members
petejUK politics ToryParty leadership TrussLiz Brexit Remain Leave trade sentiment mood austerity OsborneGeorge culture magicalThinking delusion NorthernIreland protocol MinfordPatrick tax publicSpending Dover borders delay dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:da2eb9a56cda/Everything tainted by Johnson’s lies needs to be undone. That includes his Brexit | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-07-08T19:34:15+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/08/boris-johnson-lies-brexit-exit
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris leadership resignation dishonesty ToryParty opposition LabourParty StarmerKeir CorbynJeremy generalElection ge2019 media personality charisma popularity class behaviour impunity Brexit dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:128e92c3587f/His toxic spell is broken: Boris Johnson trips over his own lies | Boris Johnson | The Guardian2022-07-07T12:26:43+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/07/toxic-spell-broken-boris-johnson-trips-over-own-lies
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris ToryParty leadership resignation dishonesty trust reputation rules deception MayTheresa generalElection ge2019 Brexit CummingsDominic tactics Leave Remain populism television celebrity TrumpDonald arrogance laziness cynicism dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3a3ef3a83b3c/These byelection defeats are the verdict on a cruel and useless government that’s running out of road | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-06-24T11:01:28+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/24/byelection-defeats-government-tiverton-wakefield-tory
petejUK politics byelection Wakefield TivertonAndHoniton opposition LabourParty LiberalDemocratParty ToryParty JohnsonBoris leadership DowdenOliver resignation RMT rail strike Rwanda immigration asylum refugees HumanRightsAct Brexit business blaming division dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:cdf7658db17e/Trump’s forces are preparing for the next storming of the Capitol. This time, they plan to win | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-06-17T11:05:28+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/10/donald-trump-storming-capitol-democracy-6-january
petejUSA politics TrumpDonald Trumpism Capitol riot democracy election CarlsonTucker FoxNews violence BarrWilliam RepublicanParty voting suppression fraud dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:71f11bac76ed/Don’t condemn just our lying PM: save some anger for the cowards who enabled him | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-05-21T07:16:26+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/20/boris-johnson-lying-pm-britain-tories
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris ToryParty DowningStreet parties dishonesty integrity MetropolitanPolice fines FPN leadership impunity police legal RaabDominic justice accountability GraySue report publication Zaghari-RatcliffeNazanin Iran MayTheresa London corruption Telegraph journalism cowardice failure dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:60ec9cbebf02/Johnson blames today’s Brexit woes on Brussels – that’s a load of old bull | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-05-16T07:05:32+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/13/boris-johnson-brexit-brussels-northern-ireland-eu
petejUK EU Brexit NorthernIreland protocol borders trade checking GoodFridayAgreement DUP BurnsConor Rees-MoggJacob hardBrexit IrishSea dishonesty blaming withdrawalAgreement bullshit dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:4d2f875a0157/Here’s what we have learned: Starmer can’t dazzle like Blair, but might still rid us of Johnson | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-05-07T11:38:00+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/06/keir-starmer-local-election-results-labour-general-election
petejUK politics localGovernment election councils LabourParty StarmerKeir opposition Wandsworth Westminster Barnet Manchester Liverpool NewcastleUponTyne Norwich ToryParty costOfLiving inflation energy interestRates JohnsonBoris DowningStreet parties dishonesty integrity LiberalDemocratParty GreenParty personality charisma tactics dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:333be1b54008/Jacob Rees-Mogg has given the game away – even this government knows Brexit is a disaster | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-04-29T20:18:04+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/29/jacob-rees-mogg-brexit-disaster-leaving-eu-boris-johnson
petejUK EU Brexit borders customs checking delay Rees-MoggJacob food imports prices costs opportunities coronavirus health epidemic DowningStreet parties careHomes legal HighCourt opposition LabourParty StarmerKeir dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1105ac366e3c/Johnson to stay because of Ukraine? Nonsense. The war makes it more urgent that he go | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-04-15T21:45:07+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/15/boris-johnson-ukraine-war-prime-minister
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris DowningStreet parties coronavirus health epidemic restrictions rules MetropolitanPolice fines FPN Ukraine war FabricantMichael immigration refugees asylum Rwanda relocation contempt dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:9161c1a11ce9/Putin still has friends in the west – and they’re gaining ground | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-04-09T05:24:49+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/vladimir-putin-viktor-orban-eu-marine-le-pen
petejRussia politics PutinVladimir Putinism Hungary OrbanViktor France election LePenMarine ZemmourEric costOfLiving populism EU MelenchonJean-Luc FarageNigel GallowayGeorge ToryParty oligarchs USA CarlsonTucker nationalism conservatism culture dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c046ac8998b8/Zelenskiy is Churchill with an iPhone, but the video war will be easier to win than the real one | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-03-26T07:43:24+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/25/churchill-iphone-volodymyr-zelenskiy-ukraine-west
petejUkraine war ZelenskiyVolodymyr media socialMedia news storytelling Bosnia attention dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:e46703e93876/Putin’s war on Ukraine will shake our world as much as 9/11. Let’s not make the same mistakes | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-03-12T16:34:02+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/11/vladimir-putin-war-ukraine-9-11-al-qaida-russia
petejUkraine Russia war invasion 9/11 sovereignty PutinVladimir brutality misinformation nihilism Georgia Crimea Syria warOnTerror Afghanistan Iraq dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:2f64ab3f43e8/This bloody invasion is turning the march of history into a sprint – and it’s not going Putin’s way | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-03-04T21:35:46+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/vladimir-putin-invasion-history-ukraine-russia
petejUkraine Russia war invasion PutinVladimir nationalIdentity Germany arms defence spending NATO EU sovereignty safety security ZelenskiyVolodymyr dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:3159fe846c84/We’re appalled by Putin now, but be clear: the west gave him the green light | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-02-26T06:48:00+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/25/putin-west-gave-him-green-light-russia-ukraine
petejRussia PutinVladimir Ukraine invasion politics military ZelenskiyVolodymyr NATO nuclearWeapons power sanctions impunity dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:7e9ceb80486d/How can Jacob Rees-Mogg find ‘Brexit opportunities’? They don’t exist | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-02-13T15:58:43+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/11/jacob-rees-mogg-brexit-opportunities-britain-economy
petejUK politics Rees-MoggJacob EU Brexit business trade supply delay bureaucracy regulation checking failure dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:1a06ebe46e74/This scandal reveals a Conservative party corrupted by Boris Johnson – and by Brexit | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-01-21T21:40:09+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/21/partygate-conservatism-corrupted-boris-johnson-brexit-monarchy-union-bbc
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris ToryParty DowningStreet parties DorriesNadine BBC licenceFee Rees-MoggJacob Scotland RossDouglas Brexit CummingsDominic prorogation VoteLeave nationalism populism OrbanViktor dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:32a14cf6c448/It’s a scandal that Boris Johnson ever got to No 10 – and shaming that he’s still there | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2022-01-21T21:34:57+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/14/boris-johnson-no-10-lies-trust
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris ToryParty leadership DowningStreet parties coronavirus health epidemic restrictions rules trust corruption cronyism dishonesty GraySue investigation dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:cf7c8f82364e/The Brexit ’n’ Boris formula was a winner for the Tories. Now it’s falling apart | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-12-18T07:58:34+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/17/brexit-boris-johnson-tories-voters-lies-trust
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris coronavirus health epidemic government failure impunity popularity NorthShropshire byelection ToryParty LiberalDemocratParty LabourParty tacticalVoting Brexit ge2019 RedWall dishonesty trust levellingUp leadership dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:10b3d59545fa/The Republican party is embracing violence in the name of Trump | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-12-04T10:18:39+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/03/republican-party-democracy-political-violence-trumpism
petejUSA politics RepublicanParty Trumpism violence GosarPaul TaylorGreeneMarjorie CheneyLiz coronavirus health epidemic restrictions masks schools boundaries gerrymandering authoritarianism race democracy dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:21f26d285da0/The dishonesty of Boris Johnson has finally infected the entire government | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-11-20T06:21:40+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/19/dishonesty-boris-johnson-magical-thinking-cakeism-conservative-party
petejUK politics JohnsonBoris ToryParty government dishonesty COP26 emissions HS2 transport rail socialCare levellingUp Brexit NorthernIreland protocol IrishSea borders singleMarket customs dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:11fd0678b49c/The Paterson fiasco confirms the threat Boris Johnson poses to British democracy | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-11-05T17:08:51+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/05/paterson-fiasco-threat-boris-johnson-british-democracy
petejUK politics PatersonOwen lobbying corruption rules JohnsonBoris ToryParty CummingsDominic JenrickRobert PatelPriti Brexit NorthernIreland protocol democracy power dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan MPs jobshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:b3111a1b42c5/Tony Blair had it easy. Keir Starmer is in a much deeper hole | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-10-26T10:27:40+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/15/tony-blair-keir-starmer-tv-series-new-labour-1997-landslide
petejUK politics LabourParty StarmerKeir NewLabour BlairTony BrownGordon leadership populism factionalism JohnsonBoris dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:c24ff1a56d36/In plain sight, Boris Johnson is rigging the system to stay in power | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-10-02T19:35:44+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/01/boris-johnson-rigging-the-system-power-courts-protest-elections
petejUK politics democracy JohnsonBoris ToryParty justice government immigration protest PCSCBill whistleblowing OfficialSecretsAct ElectoralCommission identity voting fraud disenfranchisement suppression Ofcom DacrePaul accountability power dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathan voterIdhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:6c4bf8d0051c/The cause of our food and petrol shortages is Brexit – yet no one dares name it | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-09-24T17:20:58+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/24/food-petrol-shortages-brexit-goods-johnson-botched-deal
petejUK politics Brexit food petrol shortage carbonDioxide gas EU singleMarket NorthernIreland haulage lorries drivers transport recruitment immigration visas JohnsonBoris ShappsGrant LabourParty opposition StarmerKeir dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:4eb93fdb0cd2/Biden will survive the Afghan withdrawal, but it seals the fate of liberal interventionism | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-09-04T13:53:21+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/03/biden-afghan-withdrawal-liberal-intervention-west-afghanistan-iraq
petejUSA politics Afghanistan Taliban BidenJoe military withdrawal war Kabul evacuation TrumpDonald RepublicanParty intervention interventionism foreignPolicy strategy 9/11 Iraq Syria China dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:686b8d88c503/Trump may be fading away, but Trumpism is now in the American bloodstream | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian2021-08-07T13:50:18+00:00
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/06/trump-trumpism-american-presidential-run-republican
petejUSA politics RepublicanParty TrumpDonald Trumpism nomination BidenJoe age HarrisKamala GreeneMarjorieTaylor GaetzMatt Capitol riot coronavirus health epidemic vaccination denial contempt democracy dctagged dc:creator=FreedlandJonathanhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:petej/b:063e82ab53c8/